The statue's striking color and size led to a flurry of online comparisons to characters from "Avatar" and jokes about Zuckerberg being the ultimate "wife guy."

"The ethical standards applicable to museums are much changed since the 1960s," the Worcester Art Museum's director said.

Video of the stunt has gone viral, generating headlines across the globe.

While on stage at the event, Sgarbi answered a phone call from an unidentified man whom he called a "nobody" and a "cuckold."

The murals were found in the Villa of the Antonines, a site named after a famous dynasty of emperors that include Marcus Aurelius, Lucius Veras, and the emperor Commodus.

Building a new home is a daunting enough task without the past throwing a spanner in the works.

The Sphinx, which was found along with a limestone shrine, date back to the Roman era.

A 19th-century copy of a famed Etruscan vase could restart a decades-old debacle.

Known as intaglios, gems like these were worn by the wealthy.

This is not the first time a mass burial of decapitated individuals has been found in England.